From: oldernow@dev.null
On 2025-03-16, Ed Cryer wrote:
> You seem to me to be fighting for a widely held
> philosophical idea;
On my end it feels like calmly stating the obvious.
> that mind is on its own, uncaused, unattached and free as
> the wind swell. OK, so I won't take you up on that. As
> John Milton put it "the mind is its own place, and in
> itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven".
"When could I have been born,
I who am the conceiver of time itself?
Where could I live,
I who conceive the space wherein all things extend?
How could I die,
I who conceive the birth, life, and death of all things,
I who, conceiving, cannot be conceived?"
~ Wei Wu Wei (Posthumous Pieces)
> But that seems to be the end of your campaign.
The seeming campaign is confined to your re-presentation
of what you believe to be reality.
> A battle in the realm of metaphysics; a battle to establish
> the autonomy of mind.
Now it's a battle? My oh my, what wondrous drama your
re-presentation of what you believe to be reality contains!
> Me, I love battling. But I'd never battle to be alone. I
> fight for my rights; my convictions; my political
> goals. They keep me in the world, attached to other people.
It's quite amazing how amazing you are in your
re-presentation of what you believe to be reality!
> I won't fight for empiricism, I won't fight for idealism,
> I won't fight to grind myself into a corner. Philosophy
> is interesting, but it's a hobby, not an ideology.
How about just quietly doing it instead of making a big
announcement about it for ego's sake?
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